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Where are they going to put 1000 of them?

£100 exc China.

There’s a long way to go, £2 isn’t important.

What on earth are they doing here, they can’t buy yet

£100.01 (exc China)

Anyone know how to represent a face palm on here?

I think the LFT has caught up, so maybe only a week or two following BAMS. I was certainly delighted to hear Prof Bell and Matt Handjob talking about it - that suggests we're well on the way. As noted, always plenty other newsflow to fill in the gaps - the odd billion here, a billion there...

My guess was Porton Down was looking at home use so usability so that we can move straight to mass screening and the HUGE orders that would come with it

Chump change :-D

Yeah, I don't think anyone is expecting anything related to the LFT as soon as this. They've got to produce the batches and get the samples they need etc. Given the Prof is saying that the early indications are good, it looks like they're now fully busy with the clinical validation. BAMS is helping us get an idea for that, 4 weeks so far.

‘People raving here how the professor couldn’t possibly be referring to another test are incorrect‘

Name another 10 min saliva LFD please

Spot on CO. He made similar comments to Michael Mina, so I think there's a better or at least more flexible understanding in the UK that a lower sensitivity against PCR is perfectly acceptable. It will still identify, in combination with a higher frequency of testing, individuals that are highly infectious. I can imagine that we'll arrive at the values given by the Prof. This might mean the FDA is a tough nut to crack for home testing, but there's a huge demand here to keep us busy given they're taking about national screening twice a week. Add in CE marking and that'll open a lot of markets. We'll also be the global stand out saliva LFD test and that can only increase the pressure on the FDA even more. Of course, ideally we'll meet their guidelines and let them join the queue.

It’s measured against specificity, i.e. is it specific to Covid or does it give false negatives and sensitivity i.e. does it detect it in all cases or does it give false negatives. It’s tested against a load of samples versus the gold standard reference test, current PCR, but possibly BAMS in future. You can then calculate the %s.

We’ve been told affimers are highly specific, so expect this to be high 90s, if not 100%. Sensitivity is the key one as we don’t want a test that results in a large number of infected people thinking they’re ok. However, for repeated mass screening it’s less important as rapid tests will still pick up infections when the viral load is high. This will ensure people isolate and break the transmission chains. 80% is the FDA benchmark for antigen tests. Anything over 90% is excellent, we’re aiming even higher.

They currently have a manufacturing capacity of 15 per annum. We’ll need a lot more.

He said £5-£10. He plucked a number out of the air, Sir Al has said $15 bulk, $30 retail and he’s setting the prices. Maybe we’ll do a fiver for a MEGA bulk deal of 1.4Bn a month

(Phew, think I got away with that embaassment, almost made a ight idiot of myself)

Soy, it’s my keyboad. I just thought it’d be easie if we could all agee not to bothe with them so that it’s fai. Does that sound easonable?

Ignore it Muck, just another tragic desperado from another share

There’s no r in affimers. Please use reply rather than starting a new thread every post.

Thanks ST. Increasingly convinced Prof Bell works for Awacta in the marketing department. No concern over the £5 a pop comment, earlier he says £5-10 and the upper end aligns with Sir Al.

I don’t know what I’ve done. I can only apologise that everyone will sadly no longer hear that an unknown RNS might appear at some time in the future.

Don’t be angry at me though, be angry at Gazala, he started it. I would have ignored it. As a long term holder I couldn’t care less when the next news drops. Who needs news when you’ve got Prof John Bell